French ship Union (1799)
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Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of the Union, on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris |
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Name: | Union |
Namesake: | Union |
Builder: | Lorient |
Launched: | 1799 |
Fate: | Sank in storm 1806 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Téméraire class ship of the line |
Displacement: | 2900 tonnes |
Length: | 55.87 metres (172 French feet) |
Beam: | 14.90 metres (44' 6) |
Draught: | 7,26 metres (22 French feet) |
Propulsion: | Up to 2485 m² of sails |
Complement: | 3 officers + 690 men |
Armament: |
74 guns:
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Armour: | Timber |
The Union was a Téméraire class ship of the line 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was renamed Diomède in 1803.
She was wrecked and burnet at the Battle of San Domingo.